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Re: Null pointer check elimination
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
"Michael N. Moran" <mike@mnmoran.org> writes:
[...]
| Do we want to hide the error by not crashing? Why not just do the
| math and keep running? This seems like a run-time check that
| is not a part of the C/C++ language as I understand it.
defined by which standards?
At this point, I am entirely out of my league. As I said in
my initial post, IANALL, I am simply one who has lurked on this
list for years because of my interest in GCC as it applies to
C/C++ .
I freely admit to my ignorance on issues of the standards, but
this behavior is surprising to me.
You guys do a great job, and I depend on your compiler. I *want*
GCC to be standards compliant, so I am not complaining. Its just
that given the systems programming roots of C/C++ and the "you don't
pay for what you don't use" and the "least surprise" maxims, I
feel a bit confused.
Sorry, I'll shut-up or go complain to the standards bodies
... yikes! ;-)
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